Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

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